[derekpearson]

So I just bought a new laptop. There is some software on it that I would love on my desktop computer. Since I purchased the laptop with the software on it, can I legally use it on my home PC as well?
Im not interested in doing anything illegally.....

 

[stinkyboy]

I think Quark just agreed to allow this to happen as many people have both machines these days.

Talk to the company.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Did the guy who sold you the laptop transfer the license for the software to you?

 

[Transcend]

Some companies will allow you to have it installed on 2 machines at once, as long as it is only used on one machine at a time. Some actually probe your network (hurr hurr) to make sure that only one copy is running at a time.

 

[JRB]

Technically you can only have it on one machine. It is not usually licensed by user, to load on as many machines as you like. I would call though. You never know.

 

[Transcend]

Technically you can only have it on one machine. It is not usually licensed by user, to load on as many machines as you like. I would call though. You never know.

This model is changing. Many developers are now allowing it to be installed on 2 machines at once. I believe adobe is one of them, although I am not 100% sure.

 

[Ciaran]

Read the EULA. It will tell you exactly how many machines you can have it on. In the past as Loco said it was one license, one computer. But as Transcend pointed out, things are changing.

 

[JRB]

Dude - do you really call it the end user's license agreement???

 

[Ciaran]

Dude - do you really call it the end user's license agreement???

No. I call it the eula (Yoo-la)

I don't know what I am doing here helping these non pirates.

 

[Transcend]

No. I call it the eula (Yoo-la)

I don't know what I am doing here helping these non pirates.

argh, ahoy matey.

We all know you'd prefer they were knights, not pirates.

 

[DirtyMike]

So I just bought a new laptop. There is some software on it that I would love on my desktop computer. Since I purchased the laptop with the software on it, can I legally use it on my home PC as well?
Im not interested in doing anything illegally.....

Read the Eula. Some programs are licensed for use in Many. Some<Windows for example> are licensed for single machine use


P.S. Eula means End use License agreement. Its that cool thing you click accept on when installing software